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Mimesis and Pacific Transcultural Encounters : Making Likenesses in Time, Trade, and Ritual Reconfigurations.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: ASAO Studies in Pacific Anthropology SeriesPublisher: New York, NY : Berghahn Books, Incorporated, 2017Copyright date: ©2017Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (292 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781785336256
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Mimesis and Pacific Transcultural EncountersDDC classification:
  • 306.091823
LOC classification:
  • GN662 .M48 2017
Online resources:
Contents:
MIMESIS AND PACIFIC TRANSCULTURAL ENCOUNTERS -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Part I - Introduction -- Introduction: Mimesis in Theory and in Cultural History -- Part II - Mimesis through Time -- Chapter 1 - Imitation as Relationality in Early Australian Encounters -- Chapter 2 - Transitional Images and Imaginaries: Dressing in Schemas in Colonial Samoa -- Chapter 3 - Reel to Real: Mimesis, Playing Indian, and Touring with The Vanishing Race in New Zealand 1927 -- Part III - Selling Mimesis: From Tourist Art to Trade Stores -- Chapter 4 - Traditional Tahitian Weddings for Tourists: An Entwinement of Mimetic Practices -- Chapter 5 - Of Dragons and Mermaids: The Art of Mimesis in the Trobiand Islands -- Chapter 6 - Capitalism Meets Its Match: Failed Mimesis of Market Economics among the Asabano of Papua New Guinea -- Part IV - Ritual Mimesis and Its Reconfigurations -- Chapter 7 - Mimesis, Ethnopsychology, and Transculturation: Identifications in Birthday Celebrations among Banabans in Fiji -- Chapter 8 - Mimesis and Reimagining Identity among Marshall Islanders -- Chapter 9 - Anthropology, Christianity, and the Colonial Impasse: Rawa Mimesis, Millenialism, and Modernity in the Finisterre Mountains of Papua New Guinea -- Part V - Afterword -- Afterword: "1 Lot Magic Sticks 6 Bundles." Mimetic Technologies: Their Intimacies and Intersecting Histories -- Index.
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MIMESIS AND PACIFIC TRANSCULTURAL ENCOUNTERS -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Part I - Introduction -- Introduction: Mimesis in Theory and in Cultural History -- Part II - Mimesis through Time -- Chapter 1 - Imitation as Relationality in Early Australian Encounters -- Chapter 2 - Transitional Images and Imaginaries: Dressing in Schemas in Colonial Samoa -- Chapter 3 - Reel to Real: Mimesis, Playing Indian, and Touring with The Vanishing Race in New Zealand 1927 -- Part III - Selling Mimesis: From Tourist Art to Trade Stores -- Chapter 4 - Traditional Tahitian Weddings for Tourists: An Entwinement of Mimetic Practices -- Chapter 5 - Of Dragons and Mermaids: The Art of Mimesis in the Trobiand Islands -- Chapter 6 - Capitalism Meets Its Match: Failed Mimesis of Market Economics among the Asabano of Papua New Guinea -- Part IV - Ritual Mimesis and Its Reconfigurations -- Chapter 7 - Mimesis, Ethnopsychology, and Transculturation: Identifications in Birthday Celebrations among Banabans in Fiji -- Chapter 8 - Mimesis and Reimagining Identity among Marshall Islanders -- Chapter 9 - Anthropology, Christianity, and the Colonial Impasse: Rawa Mimesis, Millenialism, and Modernity in the Finisterre Mountains of Papua New Guinea -- Part V - Afterword -- Afterword: "1 Lot Magic Sticks 6 Bundles." Mimetic Technologies: Their Intimacies and Intersecting Histories -- Index.

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